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Describing American Politics

There’s a lake in Massachusetts referred to by the locals as “Lake Webster”.  But, it’s real name is “Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg”.  It might be the longest place name in the United States and is definitely one of the longest in the world.  I know you’re going to try so here’s a

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Imagining $30 Trillion

Now you can listen to this on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The national debt of the United States is just under $30 trillion.  But let’s go ahead and call it an even $30 trillion. Because it will get there soon enough. Let me say that again. The United States owes individuals,

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A Line Too Far

We’ve all seen, and sometimes felt, the effects of the “cancel culture”.  Just over the past few weeks there have been attacks on Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, Aunt Jemima and now Pepé Le Pew.  Increasingly ridiculous examples of things that are somehow offensive to someone appear almost daily. And

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Toxic Immunity

My local paper, the Ventura County Star (part of the USA Today network), recently published an article with the headline: “Teachers in Simi Valley get their first shot at COVID-19 Immunity”.  Wait a minute, that seems weird because Dr. Anthony Fauci is telling us that the “vaccines” have no impact

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Survivor Gilt

If I’m watching the news and I see a report where a ferry sunk somewhere on the other side of the world, do you know what I feel?  Nothing.  That’s right.  Hundreds of people may have died, and I wouldn’t even care.  In fact, unless they died of some reason

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Dr. Fauci and the Bobcat

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Although many people consider him to be “the expert”, Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn’t have a very good track record when it comes to talking about COVID-19.  First, he used a wildly-inaccurate model to predict how bad the virus would

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